Multiple Brands - Premier Garage, High Street, Newport, Essex CB11 3PE circa 1935
This is a wonderful image of the era, crystal clear and with many period features to really appreciate. Perhaps the most obvious are the incredible telegraph poles - you don't see them like that any more but back in this era that's how they looked! Then the half timbered garage building is lovely and the pumps around it quite possibly out of date by the time this photo was taken - certainly not state of the art anyway. The pump globes are beautiful, the rectangular Cleveland one and the Power one far right are the only two on "modern" pumps in the photo. The small lorry coming towards us has L plates on it, seems a bit odd in a modern context but back then I'm sure it was perfectly normal. L plates were only introduced in 1935 so the photo is no earlier than that. Just to the left is a small sign for Lyons Ice Cream, and behind one can see part of a sign for Woodbine cigarettes. The finger road sign to Debden, Wimbish and Thaxted is also nice to see.
The garage later went on to become a Shell solus site in the later 1950s and 1960s, see later image below. Later still it spent its last days dispensing fuel under the Power brand but stopped selling petrol about 2005. I have a modern photo of it taken only last year to show that the garage itself still exists but all signs of petrol sales had gone, and a new house was being built on part of the site. Subsequent to my taking that photo the canopy has since been removed but the pole sign still stands.
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Multiple Brands - Premier Garage, High Street, Newport, Essex CB11 3PE circa 1935
This is a wonderful image of the era, crystal clear and with many period features to really appreciate. Perhaps the most obvious are the incredible telegraph poles - you don't see them like that any more but back in this era that's how they looked! Then the half timbered garage building is lovely and the pumps around it quite possibly out of date by the time this photo was taken - certainly not state of the art anyway. The pump globes are beautiful, the rectangular Cleveland one and the Power one far right are the only two on "modern" pumps in the photo. The small lorry coming towards us has L plates on it, seems a bit odd in a modern context but back then I'm sure it was perfectly normal. L plates were only introduced in 1935 so the photo is no earlier than that. Just to the left is a small sign for Lyons Ice Cream, and behind one can see part of a sign for Woodbine cigarettes. The finger road sign to Debden, Wimbish and Thaxted is also nice to see.
The garage later went on to become a Shell solus site in the later 1950s and 1960s, see later image below. Later still it spent its last days dispensing fuel under the Power brand but stopped selling petrol about 2005. I have a modern photo of it taken only last year to show that the garage itself still exists but all signs of petrol sales had gone, and a new house was being built on part of the site. Subsequent to my taking that photo the canopy has since been removed but the pole sign still stands.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9824945,0.2138541,3a,75y,39.75h...